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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 4-6
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Secondly, As our hearts should be drawn out in admiration, so in thankfulness, forasmuch as God hath made such a world for us: he hath laid the foundations of the earth, he hath measured it out, and stretched the line upon it, that we might have the use of it, that we might tenant and inhabit this house. Man is the chief inhabitant of the earth; that other creatures dwell there, is for the service of man: then let us be thankful. Our greatest cause of thankfulness is, that the Lord hath made another house for us, of which the Apostle professeth his assurance (2 Cor. 5.1.) We know, that when the earthly house of this Tabernacle (whether of our body, or of the body of this world) is dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. O how should we rejoice in, he thankful for that house! But that we have this inferior house built for us (which is also a building of God, an house not made with hands, but purely and immediately by the power of God) is and should be continual matter of great thankfulness.
Secondly, As our hearts should be drawn out in admiration, so in thankfulness, forasmuch as God hath made such a world for us: he hath laid the foundations of the earth, he hath measured it out, and stretched the line upon it, that we might have the use of it, that we might tenant and inhabit this house. Man is the chief inhabitant of the earth; that other creatures dwell there, is for the service of man: then let us be thankful. Our greatest cause of thankfulness is, that the Lord hath made another house for us, of which the Apostle professeth his assurance (2 Cor. 5.1.) We know, that when the earthly house of this Tabernacle (whether of our body, or of the body of this world) is dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. O how should we rejoyce in, he thankful for that house! But that we have this inferiour house built for us (which is also a building of God, an house not made with hands, but purely and immediately by the power of God) is and should be continual matter of great thankfulness.